SWANS initiative

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A speaker wearing a headscarf gives a lecture to a group of young women of different skin colors.
The funding also includes training on the topic of career entry.

The SWANS Initiative is a voluntary organization that supports students and young academics with an immigrant background and Women of Color in starting their careers. SWANS offers, among other things, training courses, networking events and support with job applications. In addition, she regularly portrays successful women from the target group in academic professions in her role models blog .

As the first and only organization in German-speaking countries that specifically supports students and young academics from refugee and immigrant families who grew up in Germany, it has received awards from Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Economic and Social Committee , among others . SWANS is financially supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Federal Integration Commissioner .

structure

Since the first seminar in March 2017, a team of volunteers has come together who are committed to SWANS in addition to work, studies and / or family. As it is institutionalized in the DSI Deutschlandstiftung Integration gGmbH , the initiative is non-profit. The idea for the initiative came as part of the mentoring - Scholarship GO YOUR WAY of Germany Foundation integration, where some of the SWANS team members have come to know.

aims

SWANS has set itself the goal of helping highly qualified women with a migration background to appropriate political, cultural and economic participation. The reason for this is that their target group is underrepresented in German decision-making positions in terms of their share of the population, continues to be disadvantaged on the labor market according to the Federal Statistical Office and, with the same qualifications, has to apply up to seven times as often as a woman with white skin and a German-sounding name.

Prizes and awards

Since the beginning of its activities in 2017, the SWANS Initiative has been nominated and awarded by various institutions:

Chancellor Angela Merkel, starting social federal selection 2018

European Economic and Social Committee , 2nd place Civil Society Prize 2018

EU Commission in Germany, Berlin Senate Department: Blue Bear nomination for European engagement 2019

Project of the week at the “Week of Civic Engagement”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs

Schwarzkopf Foundation: Million Chances Award 2019 (audience award), presented by influencer Riccardo Simonetti

German Demography Prize: Nomination in the Diversity 2020 category

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.swans-initiative.de
  2. ↑ https://www.swans-initiative.de/vorbilder
  3. ↑ Dudzinski, Martha 2019: Fatmas in the management floors ! GoVolunteer Blog , last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ Cuko, Katy 2018: Initiative Swans is committed to smart women with foreign roots . Friedrichshafen: Südkurier from October 5, 2018, last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ European Social and Economic Committee 2019: Women who fly with the SWANS , last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  6. ↑ https://www.swans-initiative.de/
  7. ↑ https://www.swans-initiative.de/post/weil-sie-es-k%C3%B6nnen
  8. ↑ Deutschlandstiftung Integration 2018: Portraits - Martha Dudzinski , last call on March 24, 2020./
  9. ↑ Franconia, Swetlana; Christoph, Oliver 2013: Success factors and barriers for career-oriented migrant women. Final report of the research project "Migrant women in leadership positions: Success factors on the way to the top" . Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. Bielefeld, last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  10. ↑ DESTATIS 2017: Integration indicators 2005–2016: People with a migration background still have disadvantages, last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  11. ^ Weichselbäumer, Doris 2016: Discrimination against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves. Discussion Paper No. 10217. Research Institute for the Future of Labor Institute for the Study of Labor, last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  12. ↑ https://www.swans-initiative.de/post/kanzlerin-merkel-ehre-swans
  13. ↑ European Social and Economic Committee 2019: Women who fly with the SWANS , last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  14. ↑ Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe: Blue Bear award ceremony 2019 . Last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  15. ↑ engagement makes you strong 2019: Project of the week - SWANS Initiative , last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  16. ↑ Schwarzkopf 2019: Four beaming winners for female empowerment , last accessed on March 24, 2020.
  17. ↑ Simonetti's Facebook post on November 6, 2019, last accessed on March 24, 2020
  18. ↑ German Demography Network 2020: Projects nominated for the German Demography Prize , last accessed on March 24, 2020.